the sinking islands cyprus struggles to meet the. vital for of the head of monday's deadline the schools of savings facing the prospect of losing chunks of their money for the sake of rescuing the country's ailing banks. u.k. police stick into the death of the russian tycoon bodies but as. he said to have repented his past while longing for a return to his homeland in the last few days. starving to death in protest at indefinite detention for hunger strike in guantanamo detainees claimed. the u.s. military denies a crisis and even wants to expand the facility. in

the back of the past seven days leading stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. cyprus is stuck between a rock and a hard place ahead of monday's deadline to raise five point eight billion euros needed to secure an e.u. town devoid of a banking collapse the government has produced a plan that could potentially see scores of people lose up to a fifth of their life savings for the sake of rescuing the banks the prospect caused panic and discontent across cyprus this week with crowds venting their anger on the streets as this ripple. in a dramatic week of unfolding events cyprus has moved from rejected europe with a resounding no vote on what it saw as an unfair demand for getting a ten billion euro bailout did now bending over backwards trying to clinch that money scrambling to put together a package pleasing enough to its creditors the so-called troika now saying yes to

imposing a twenty percent levy on deposits above one hundred thousand euros in the bank of cyprus and four percent for big deposits in other banks imposing capital controls creating a so we do already fund and a restructuring it's a living banks and in that week of dramatic political and economic mover and citizens we're on an emotional rollercoaster panicked cypriots rushed to a.t.m. to try to get their money out of the bank at gas stations and no cash meant no gas i agree people took to the streets shocked at what they largely felt was europe particularly germany trying to bring them to their knees but they would stay home how they would pay us and our kids. you know we don't accept it's a sight all too familiar in the next door greece but for the first star in the euro zone street of be allowed to parents a red line had been crossed it was all going up like this particular instances that the european union the euro zone have taken

a step forward beyond their previous policy where they always said individuals will not be harmed we will not take money out of the models of enchanters and actually they've done that but what we see is that if you're a big member then you will be left alone and you will be bailouts and you if you are small member you will be beleaguered r us to further complicate matters banks in the country will remain closed until next week the european central bank had given an ultimatum if there's no deal with the troika by monday the twenty fifth urgency liquidity funding will be cut off causing another round of panic as citizens feared the worst. holding on to as much cash as they could most conversations now are about nothing else but the predicament their countries it. went to support from but there are reasons to be able to. say you didn't

believe it would you know what everybody else or company next. then you go before people see your club. and whenever they could they don't think twice about joining the crowd at the time you see it with your little. peoples. if you take one for you i think those are. well over the past few days many cypriots have been telling me that they've seen or read about the impacts of the economic crisis on the people of neighboring countries but it's not a really felt feel to them a lot until the past week or so they share similar language or similar culture and other wondering are they going to have to share a similar social tragedy as well. tess or sylvia r.t. nicosia cyprus. professor of political economy at the university of nicosia believes there would be done repercussions to the separate nation if it complied with the strict bailout terms. there is

a political willingness by the government to reach an agreement for the bailout which we did troika but it seems that they're making it more and more difficult with new and new demands they fear that exists in case that all demands of the trade got accepted i mean it would be very difficult for these under one of these agreement to be viable in the sense that if we throw the country in which is complete and the huge recession and the vicious circle and it will be extremely difficult if not impossible to get out of it this is unprecedented cyprus lost twenty five percent of its g.d.p. almost two years ago when there was the kid a couple of the greek dead and there has been no compensation for that if these ideas being discussed are implemented there will be another hearing of the cyprus g.d.p.

which will be around forty percent it will be impossible i think to get out of such a mess british police account looking into the death of the self exiled russian tycoon and vocal kremlin critic bodies but it's all ski by hazard experts went to his home near london where he was found dead but have now given the all clear his own correspondent with the latest from the scene. the thames valley police continuing the investigation into the cause of death of course burzynski which still remains unexplained of the latest update to that investigation is that the c.b.r. and the team of officers trained in handling radioactive material he had been at the scene joining the investigation they've now given the all clear say they've left the investigation and the cordon the can see behind me here that had span two miles around. just to the lane where his home is now is a huge amount of speculation surrounding the death for spurs of ski was

a larger than life character the russian had made his fourteen after the break up of the save the union we know that in recent years he had been struggling psychologically and financially he had a number of high profile cases in britain the most recent of which he lost against fellow you've got roman abramovich and when you listen to people here in the courthouse at the time is that it certainly seems that that had a very significant impact on him indeed as he said not just psychologically financially as well and it does look like he was struggling with that and a lot of relatives a lot of friends. of the have come out and speculated about his mental state at the time of his death and we've also heard from the russian president's press a cache he said that he months ago the president received a letter from verizon we can take a listen now to what that said. some time ago maybe some two months ago

but it's sent a letter to putin himself saying that he admits that he made a lot of mistakes. to forgive him foolish mistakes and also asked putin for a transfer. this letter did exist pretty dismal the man he's wanted by british police. on suspicion of the murder of alexander litvinenko the very high profile case that continues they can about there is a ski describing that as this arrivals saying he was in constant contact with me to friends and also giving further insight into his mental state at the time. already entered in which he was completely alone in the last six months unfortunately he was not thinking much of friendship himself he was keeping ties only with the men he needed and when he took everything he could from those men and he parted with them that is why his friends have done the same thing to him we were bitter rivals

but we were constantly in dialogue through our movie true friends i know for sure that he was in a deep depression and he started to revaluate many things he was missing russia living in london and he always asked people coming to visit him from moscow to bring him local food whiteboard inskeep read during the meeting with a journalist as late as friday boris berezovsky has spoken about his longing to return home to russia and talks about losing meaning to his life perhaps like further insights into the russian tycoon state of mind at the time that he died of course that police investigation to establish the cause of his death right now. on the surface or not in my colleague researcher discussed what mark will be left in history behind what he's been asking with peter lavelle host of crosstalk on r.t. . poorest parents or ski here man who will absolutely made

a fortune as they say during the ninety's or total and in russia you stole it let's be clear here is not only didn't make this not even a woman it i mean it pilate a manipulator ok he used the system what was happening in russia the political system had collapsed the economy had collapsed belief in authority had collapsed everything it was in collapse so he picked up pieces all the all over the place where he was he didn't generate wealth you store wealth let's be clear about what they can you can you tie that in the end because you know talking off air about the the rule of seven of bankers that came out of this is where the term of arcs came in i think was better software that invented it essentially that in one thousand nine hundred six a small number of people had a community enormous wealth but they wanted more and they said to yeltsin we'll get you reelected which have to give the shares in state institutions and bear off lot of eccentric cetera and he did it he gave the economy away so he ruled over very little had no power and because off he was at the top of the hill so this is how he

generated his wealth ok he didn't earn it but now you talk about a wealthy man you met and there's yes. ome arrogant useful of him self ok but a lot of security around him an enormous amount of security he was paranoid for good reason there were attempts on his life and he left because he was worried for his life ok he took his money with him or at least a good part of it is hold the self-imposed exile and learn that it was a solicitor sleep it was an escape he left it with him so he would have been charged with all kinds of criminal offenses all the reservation self-preservation not going to get out of and then revenge ok what about what about one of the you know one of the high profile cases which had a limousine company that been going to the polonium poisoning worked for a bit as off screen so litvinenko worked with. in what capacity to look for dirt to look for dirt on politicians on college and yes of course that was his job let's let's bring it up at his office he meeting up. all of which in court are we talking about billions you know massive massive legal disease it was

a really huge gamble on the part of betters of what was going to have one shred of evidence that would one sheet of paper to prove his head were caught with no paperwork absolutely why gamble so he was he knew i am just coming you know the end was coming he was running out of money you think he was running out of money is broke because a lot of people question how much he was really worth was he worth these three point one billion i doubt it ever you doubt it so do you think it was a court battles with upper mortgage or maybe others that basically boarded up by step by step broken down he died alone interest no friends is his wife and had little respect he lost his money he lost the respect he wasn't able to come home because we had heard recently that he had been trying to come back to moscow even pending illusional delusional you think he wanted to come back or not i think he wanted to come back and as for a given his know it was never going to happen and former criminal advisor at xander nicholas saw thinks that the twisted coverage of the story by western media

threatens to damage russia's image abroad. i was quite surprised to hear that it was publicly announced in the media or basically reported that as well that special units of scotland yard that got trained to deal with chemical and other material swore someone to his house but the moment it was became clear that that that obviously the media when this is a thing basically it doesn't really help neither the investigation or generally you know that the major of russia because certain people are trying to portray russia as some sort of a you know place where contact heats have become regular and even ordered by the thought of being asked around you know television stations or whether i think it was a huge political hit and i said it just doesn't work like this because this is a broken man who has no more influence he who is of no danger to to to to a putin or for the russian generally why on earth would they do that at all there

will be damage there are some people who will use this to worsen the relations between britain and russia and unfortunately the only thing we can do is help me personally for example is try to explain properly what is going on. well tonight in moscow this is the weekly on the way for you this blackout behind bars u.s. officials continue to downplay the scale of a mass hunger strike in guantanamo bay well the pentagon now wants to expand the new tourist facility. to study president pervez musharraf steps back on home soil despite death threats and criminal charges against him details and analysis coming away in just a few minutes stay with us. there

was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v. channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but now america funding segregation elsewhere via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy arab language leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to start using special bus lines plans to put palestinians on separate bus lines were first announced in november of two thousand and twelve after some complaints by jewish settlers of trouble on the buses between passengers of different ethnicities in regards to the special bus lines israeli human rights group but selim said the attempt at is appalling and the current arguments about security needs an overcrowding must not be allowed to camouflage blatant racism you know when south africa had apartheid they were slammed with sanctions including from the us but if

you're israel go ahead and segregate all the buses you like and you'll still be the us is top recipient of foreign aid at three point one billion dollars a year if there's one thing i don't like it's hypocrisy like this but that's just my opinion. continues here in r.t. skin and bones fainting and even coughing up blood that's how lawyers for the hunger strike in guantanamo detainees describe some of their clients who've been starving themselves since early february some attorneys claim they're no longer given access to the captives while the u.s. military continues to downplay the scale of the hunger strike and despite the crisis the pentagon now wants to expand the facility saying it will be open indefinitely as all these kind of reports. despair among guantanamo detainees is growing as now even their lawyers are being denied direct access to them attorneys

say they had a visit scheduled for early next week with one of the prisoners who's been on strike since the beginning of february lawyers have been informed by saudis that the only flights to the prison the u.s. military flight was cancelled. there are no other options there is no get on it. and this is why. you're not only are the attorney struggling to find out the true extent of what's happening in guantanamo now but we journalists or as well this friday captain robins you ran the spokesman for guantanamo responded to our inquiry he wrote us quote we have twenty six hunger strikers with eight receiving and total feeds meaning they get nutrition through a feeding tube last friday robert to rand wrote us there were fourteen people refusing all food while the defense attorney said been saying there were many more we cannot independently verify any of this at this point we're just relying on what

the officials and detainees lawyers tell us we're certainly in touch with their attorneys and will continue to press the officials for answers in addition to the inquiries that we made with the defense department we also asked the department of justice for their perspective on what's happening and they basically told us that it's none of their business that the military oversees the facility and referred as back to the department of defense defense attorneys are telling us that these sorties have created conditions which make it nearly impossible for them to do their job and defend their clients so frustrating there is nothing that we can do we have sent e-mails to the department to brahms to the commander. asking them. to talk to us about. her response we have been told by the department of justice that they will not talk to us they were. part of the. norma's talked to us in the meantime in washington the officials tried to downplay the hunger strike but they seem to have

a good idea of why these men resorted to such a desperate move and yet they have no solution to offer they had great optimism that guantanamo would be closed they were devastated when the president did you know backed off at least their perception of closing the facility that has caused them to become frustrated and they want to get this i think turned it up get it back in the media but it was not on the status of the detainees that general john kelly who's command oversees guantanamo came to discuss in congress he was there asking for money to renovate the prison the upgrade of the camp is estimated to cost taxpayers almost two hundred million dollars as washington schedules renovations at guantanamo the international community continues to call on president obama to comply with his own promises and to shut down the infamous prison we have no right to hold people indefinitely without charges without a trial and without people having access to a justice system that's against every principle of law which exists in the world

the un commissioner for human rights responded to our request for comment and said they have quote repeatedly regretted that the u.s. government has not closed guantanamo bay four years ago president obama ordered to stop tortured guantanamo but the u.s. says indefinite detention itself is a form of torture british resident shakur aamer was cleared for release six years ago yet he's still being held captive here's what he writes please talk to me in the old way here they destroy people mentally and physically without leaving marks half of the men now in guantanamo have been cleared for release many others never formally accused of a crime three months ago the state department closed the office in charge of closing the prison there's a growing sense among the detainees there that the only way out of guantanamo for them is in a coffin in washington i'm going to check him. out and using the pledge to close guantanamo to help him become president more than four years ago barack obama has dropped the goal from the top of his agenda as you go to this kind of now recaps

the failures to bring the dog stories of the camp to an end. the story around the closure of guantanamo bay prison has stuck to president obama ever since he promised to shut it down and here are some of the key dates on the way first in january two thousand and nine and when obama was inaugurated he ordered the prison to be shut down within a year and banned some of the interrogation methods after the u.s. government admitted torturing some of the detainees was calls another exactly since in me the same year the u.s. senate refused to fund the closure of the jail until the president provided more details as to what to do with the detainees then in mid october appear the situation that changed when the congress approved. allowed to some of the detainees to be moved to the u.s. for prosecution but then it all you turned again at the end of two thousand and ten when the same congress approved the defense spending bill which prevented us trials

for guantanamo detainees in january two thousand and eleven despite his campaign promise to close that bomb assigned the defense of the reason plan which ruled out shutting guantanamo bay down and prevented the transfer of prisoners from the camp in march obama also signed an executive order resuming military trials for detainee's a move seen by many as a complete reversal of his former policies in december two thousand and eleven the president feel to veto the national defense bill being the way for prisoners to be held indefinitely and without charge and extending the ban on moving them from the camp and finally in july last year the pentagon voiced its plans to lee of forty million dollar fiber optic cable from the u.s. mainland to guantanamo not exactly a sign washington responding to wrap up its operations in the controversial setter . well head to our website l.t. don't call for the latest news on the hunger strike of guantanamo detainees as well

as reports interviews and editorials on the controversial american prison. also online for the moment ukraine declares a state of emergency and deploys the military help to a massive snowfall. all that plenty of other stories and features on t.v. dot com the former pakistani president pervez musharraf has returned to his country after four years of self-imposed exile that's despite the taliban recently threatening to target him with snipers and suicide bombers shot of plans to leave his party amaze general election hoping to regain political influence but he faces a series of criminal charges at home with forces have granted him protected and freedom from immediate risk for the sake of analysts and holly believes that musharraf is backed by foreign patrons with vested interests in pakistan. the west has. to its advantage it looks for. operation. their

preference is always a military dictator but the situation now in pakistan is that a military dictatorship is possibly out of the question so the next best thing is to prop somebody who was there a trusted man and you can find some evidence on it because saudi arabia has in fact approached mr nawaz sharif who was his biggest opponent into keeping silent if you notice mr noble should have just returned from a trip and he has not even being called on it versus saying that we cannot deny a person from a zip residing in breeze or norm so probably there is a method in the madness and the vested interest is that they would like to see their own man in place so that their teddies their practices and their interests are governed as well as ensured by one person and that may be raised by shadow. from energy deals to geopolitics this friday china's new leader made moscow his

first official stop abroad in a multi billion dollar deal struck beijing will now have more russian oil pumped into its pipes but apart from the economic into independence the china russia ties are seen as an attempt to counter a u.s. led dominance in global affairs my colleague discussed this earlier with ati's sean thomas. this is. first trip as president. away from china and where does he choose he chooses to come to russia and this is considered an important strategic move a symbolic move showing how insync these two countries really are and they used to be not so instinct not so lockstep but politically if you look at it form a very powerful bloc on the u.n. security council there have the same ideas about syria libya iran even north korea and then in terms of trade it china is now russia's number one trading partner that used to be germany but just to give you an idea how much that is in two thousand and twelve eighty eight billion dollars of trade between these two countries alone

so it's very important for russia and china to be working together and in this trip they decided to promote cross border infrastructure and many significant deals were made and moving away from politics towards economics energy was a big focus of the trip right certainly in fact ross nafta is set to triple their exports to china over a certain amount of time now that time hasn't been determined yet but they want to start exporting forty five to fifty million tons of oil per year to china and russia has a huge energy giants china as a huge energy consumer not just oil but gas as well a memorandum went out about a gas deal that doesn't have any real specifics but just creates a partnership between russia and china when it turns to gas exportation as well you know both russia and china are members of the so-called brics group of countries including also brazil india and south africa. is this this new partnership going to be significant you have this mano polar leadership right now in the world that

everyone looks to the united states as like the default go to country the most powerful country supposedly the brics basically was created as a an economic or a traded relationship between these developing economies but now it's become an actual a political. forum as well and these countries standing up and providing their voices to other countries around the world to help be problem solvers if you will so that there is this. less of a focus on the singular pole leadership and more multiple poles developing around the world as well so china and russia working together in fact she said that closer ties with russia will make a safer world and that's what some of what he said in his trip. egyptian society is torn further apart has been reporting just a few minutes from now the better rivalry in the country's politics spills into the streets even people in hospital and worsening the post revolution stalemate that

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it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing stories for you to. see then try. to find out more visit. this is the weekly school of mutual accusations has been thrown by driving political factions in egypt after a week of brutal clashes outside offices of the ruling muslim brotherhood hundreds of people were injured near the group's h.q. in colorado the scene of some of the worst violence police militias from the muslim brotherhood try to protect the building in constant raids by opposition protesters the rising fury began a week ago when members of the brotherhood attacked gentleness activists during a peaceful demonstration near had.